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Submitted by Mick"I am the corned beef in a jew sammich"Ginny (View user info) at 2006-02-26 08:37:41 EST
Over a period of 48 hours the world has lost 3 most endearing entertainers. Although they were quite old and lived full lives, it still shocks and saddens us to lose them.
Don Knotts
LOS ANGELES- Don Knotts, the skinny, saucer eyed, lovable nerd who kept generations of television audiences laughing as bumbling Deputy Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show and up-tight Mr. Furley on Three's Company, has died. He was 81.
Knotts died Friday night of pulmonary and respiratory complications at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills, said Paul Ward, a spokesman for the cable network TV Land, which airs The Andy Griffith Show, and another Knotts hit, Three's Company.
Unspecified health problems had forced him to cancel an appearance in his native Morgantown in August 2005.
The West Virginia-born actor's half-century career included seven TV series and more than 25 films, but it was the Griffith show that brought him TV immortality and five Emmies.
Knotts appeared on several other television shows. In 1979, he joined the cast of Three's Company, also starring John Ritter, Suzanne Somers and Joyce DeWitt. He replaced Norman Fell as Mr. Furley, the up-tight landlord
Knotts' G-rated films were family fun, not box-office blockbusters. In most, he ends up the hero and gets the girl — a girl who can see through his nervousness to the heart of gold.
In the part-animated 1964 film The Incredible Mr. Limpet, Knotts played a meek clerk who turns into a fish after he is rejected by the Navy.
When it was announced in 1998 that Jim Carrey would star in a Limpet remake, Knotts responded: "I'm just flattered that someone of Carrey's caliber is remaking something I did. Now, if someone else did Barney Fife, THAT would be different."
He was among an army of comedians from Buster Keaton to Jonathan Winters to liven up the 1963 megacomedy It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Other films include The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966); The Shakiest Gun in the West, (1968); and a few Disney films such as The Apple Dumpling Gang, (1974); Gus, (1976); and Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, (1977).
In 1998, he had a key role in the back-to-the-past movie Pleasantville, playing a folksy television repairman whose supercharged remote control sends a teen boy and his sister into a TV sitcom past.
The world laughed at Knotts, but it also laughed with him.
He treasured his comedic roles and could point to only one role that wasn't funny, a brief stint on the daytime drama Search for Tomorrow.
"That's the only serious thing I've done. I don't miss that," Knotts said.
Darren McGavin
LOS ANGELES -- Darren McGavin was painting a movie set in 1945 when he learned of an opening for a small role in the show, climbed off his ladder, and returned through Columbia's front gates to land the part.
The husky, tough-talking performer went on to become one of the busiest actors in television and film, starring in five TV series, including "Mike Hammer," and endearing holiday audiences with his role as the grouchy dad in the 1983 comedy classic "A Christmas Story."
McGavin, 83, died Saturday of natural causes at a Los Angeles-area hospital with his family at his side, said his son Bogart McGavin.
McGavin also had leading roles in TV's "Riverboat" and cult favorite "Kolchak: The Night Stalker." Among his memorable portrayals was Gen. George Patton in the 1979 TV biography "Ike."
Despite his busy career in television, McGavin was awarded only one Emmy: in 1990 for an appearance as Candice Bergen's opinionated father in an episode of "Murphy Brown."
He lacked the prominence in films he enjoyed in television, but he registered strongly in featured roles such as the young artist in Venice in "Summertime," David Lean's 1955 film with Katharine Hepburn and Rosanno Brazzi; Frank Sinatra's crafty drug supplier in "The Man with the Golden Arm" (1955); Jerry Lewis's parole officer in "The Delicate Delinquent" (1957); and the gambler in 1984's "The Natural." He also starred alongside Don Knotts, who died Friday night, in the 1976 family comedy "No Deposit, No Return."
Throughout his television career, McGavin gained a reputation as a curmudgeon willing to bad-mouth his series and combat studio bosses.
McGavin starred in the private eye series "Mike Hammer" in the 1950s. In 1968 he told a reporter: "Hammer was a dummy. I made 72 of those shows, and I thought it was a comedy. In fact, I played it camp. He was the kind of guy who would've waved the flag for George Wallace."
Born in Spokane, Wash., McGavin was sketchy in interviews about his childhood. He told TV Guide in 1973 that he was a constant runaway at 10 and 11, and as a teen lived in warehouses in Tacoma, Wash., and dodged the police and welfare workers. His parents disappeared, he said.
He spent a year at College of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif., taking part in dramatics, then landed in Los Angeles. He washed dishes and was hired to paint sets at Columbia studio. He was working on "A Song to Remember" when an agent told him of an opening for a small role.
"I climbed off a painter's ladder and washed up at a nearby gas station," McGavin said. "I returned through Columbia's front gate with the agent." The director, Charles Vidor, hired him. No one recognized him but the paint foreman, who said, "You're fired."
McGavin studied at the Neighborhood Playhouse and the Actors Studio and began working in live TV drama and on Broadway. He appeared with Charlton Heston in "Macbeth" on TV and played Happy in "Death of a Salesman" in New York and on the road.
He is survived by his four children -- York, Megan, Bridget and Bogart -- from a previous marriage to Melanie York McGavin, Bogart McGavin said. McGavin was separated from his second wife, Kathy Brown, he said. Services were set for March 5 at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
Shlongy
Hilton Head North Carolina- Shlongy, the internet troll best known for his outlandish lies and childish remarks has died, he was 85.
Shlongy died Saturday night at a NC medical center from injuries sustained from a bitch slap he received trying to pick up on some hot chick at a North Carolina nightspot. There were no charges filed. the North Carolina police have said they will issue a statement early next week.
Responding officers were quoted as saying; "this is not the first time shlongy has been involved in provoking violence from unwanted advances, he has a long history of complaints"
Shlongy will best be remembered by that time he was killed when a hot chick bitch slapped him at a nightclub after he told her that he would eat a mile of shit just to lick her asshole.
Funeral services will be held at the Beth Meyer Synagogue Raleigh, North Carolina.
User Reviews
Submitted by knucklesnelson (user info) at 2006-02-27 22:43:26 EST (#)
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The dude that played "Mccloud" or some shit like that died as well, but he wasnt as old as the shlongster, he was in his 80's.
Submitted by Oxymoron (user info) at 2006-02-27 12:52:50 EST (#)
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"He spent a year at College of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif"
WOOP WOOP...Stocktown. Sorry, that's where I grew up. Not really worth the woops if you've been there but, gotta represent.
I loved Don Knotts, I used to watch the Andy Griffith show every day when I was a kid.
RIP Don
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-02-27 12:21:27 EST (#)
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way to reel me in, dude...
P.S. It's Herbert J. Shlongy, fyi.
Submitted by zoobie2000 (user info) at 2006-02-27 11:34:28 EST (#)
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-2 DIE
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2006-02-26 21:55:16 EST (#)
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Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-02-26 18:39:47 (#)
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Submitted by Spooner (user info) at 2006-02-26 16:33:32 (#)
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Haha.
Everyone hates, or loves, Shlongy.
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There's really no middle ground. Which is nice.
You know what else? Everyone hates, or loves, asparagus.
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That is very true.
Shlongy and his feud with Jimthefiend is to be featured in my newest post, a Uberhistory series. For the record, I like the Shlong Man.
Submitted by Call911 (user info) at 2006-02-26 21:36:14 EST (#)
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Cool
Submitted by AsshOly (user info) at 2006-02-26 21:13:56 EST (#)
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Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-02-26 08:45:58 (#)
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I read this because I wanted to see who else kicked besides Don Knotts...
Imagine MY surprise!
(This review was typed prior to my passing).
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haha
Submitted by Beer_bong (user info) at 2006-02-26 20:42:12 EST (#)
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Chewy's got a nasty forkball.
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2006-02-26 19:15:16 EST (#)
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Therefore, Shlongy=asparagus...
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-02-26 18:39:47 EST (#)
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Submitted by Spooner (user info) at 2006-02-26 16:33:32 (#)
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Haha.
Everyone hates, or loves, Shlongy.
There's really no middle ground. Which is nice.
You know what else? Everyone hates, or loves, asparagus.
Submitted by weasul (user info) at 2006-02-26 16:56:20 EST (#)
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You should have left Leia in the picture. +2 because I was at that game.
Submitted by Spooner (user info) at 2006-02-26 16:33:32 EST (#)
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Haha.
Everyone hates, or loves, Shlongy.
Submitted by FannyGrady (user info) at 2006-02-26 16:14:45 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by maiorano84 (user info) at 2006-02-26 15:31:51 EST (#)
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I laughed.
Shlongy.... 85...... guffaw-inducing.
Submitted by ih8u2man (user info) at 2006-02-26 15:07:25 EST (#)
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http://www.ubersite.com/m/79413
bottom right.
Submitted by Smack_Fuck (user info) at 2006-02-26 11:32:58 EST (#)
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harhar shlongys a jew.
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2006-02-26 10:34:03 EST (#)
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Note to self: SwedishGenius is a fucking idiot who shall
receive all -2s in the future.
Genius, take thy alter ass to the sporting goods store and
purchase a shotgun. You know what to do...
Submitted by PokeyPecker (user info) at 2006-02-26 09:07:28 EST (#)
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Ding Dong the shlongy's dead, the shlongy's dead, the shlongy's dead, ding dong the wicked shlongy's deaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad!
Submitted by swedishgenius (user info) at 2006-02-26 08:57:47 EST (#)
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this is crepe, you do not even have that beard
Submitted by FATMANTPK (user info) at 2006-02-26 08:55:56 EST (#)
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They will be sorely missed
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-02-26 08:47:02 EST (#)
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PS. Hilton Head Island is in SOUTH CAROLINA, Einstein.
Christ, do a Google search.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2006-02-26 08:45:58 EST (#)
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I read this because I wanted to see who else kicked besides Don Knotts...
Imagine MY surprise!
(This review was typed prior to my passing).